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as in intersections
a place where two or more things are united
situated at the junction of several major railways, the city has long been a transportation hub
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as in mergers
the act or an instance of joining two or more things into one
the junction of the coalition's two military forces has not been without problems
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as in corners
a place where roads meet
the town finally installed a traffic light at that busy junction
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Recent Examples of junctions
Mountains and forests rush by outside, broken up by junctions, barriers and bridges, the quality of light shifts along with the seasons.
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Leo Barraclough, Variety, 17 Dec. 2025
This repels other migrating ions, acting like a traffic jam at the most important internal junctions.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 Nov. 2025
The trail junctions with Cow Pies Trail at 2 miles, a good turnaround point.
—Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 8 Nov. 2025
Surprisingly, cognitive decline in healthy aging isn't as simple as neurons dying, but rather neurons losing their spark at the synapse, the tiny junctions where signals leap from cell to cell.
—Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2025
The most recent trailer shows off winding rooftop race tracks, towering mega ramps, and perilous trick courses through bustling junctions.
—Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
At Imec, these junctions have been manufactured using a new set of materials, allowing the team to scale down the technology without losing functionality.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 May 2024
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In the capital, long a traditional opposition bastion, armored trucks and soldiers have already settled at key intersections and roundabouts.—
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Follow these roads to their intersections with County Road W.—
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This, coupled with the fact that dark stars could have existed before normal stars, would allow supermassive black holes to form much faster than the standard chain of black hole mergers thought to create supermassive black holes.—
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As Piskorski noted, that environment makes mergers and the cost savings associated with them even more appealing.—
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Observation towers are placed strategically around the corners of the facility.—
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The Kimberley, Australia Berkeley River Lodge is in one of the country’s most remote corners.—
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The deal, if approved, would mark one of the largest media consolidations in recent years and fundamentally reshape Netflix’s business model to include traditional theatrical distribution for the first time in the company’s history.—
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While input costs have risen substantially from tariffs, Maxwell said the reason behind rising fertilizer and seed prices have more to do with corporate consolidations and monopolies dominating the input industry.—
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Before that, were there additional unifications that occurred?—
Cite this Entry
“Junctions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/junctions. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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